Birds, brunch, crevices......and ambient KISS

[Procrastinator35]

"Talk to me, birds talk to me....if I go down on my knees."....One of the great lines from possibly the best Neil Finn song of them all.

 

[Hoos]

Yesterday's horrible weather got me thinking about getting away from it all...

 

[Hawk Dork]

 

[Hawk Dork]

Vale the mutton bird
Flys from Alaska to Tassie and back every year and is now starving to death

Lack of food ..Over fishing, climate change both ????

From Alaska to Australia, anxious observers fear mass shearwater deaths

Migratory short-tailed shearwaters are Australia’s most numerous seabird, but washed-up carcasses, late arrivals and low numbers have conservationists worried

www.theguardian.com

 

[Hawk Dork]

Got the black kite just doing laps out the front of my place at hand rail height and lower in real close
At times he has been maybe 10 metres away from me and 2 and a bit metres off the ground
Just stunning
It so dry the poor bugger is probably hungry and looking for a feed of brunch, he is hovering over every tree and patch of long grass and patrolling the road

 

[Hawk Dork]

The baby was taken out for a run
First one Ive seen

Pheasant Coucal

The Pheasant Coucal is the only Australian cuckoo to build its own nest. It also lives and nests on the ground, unlike other cuckoos.

australianmuseum.net.au

 

[Hawk Dork]

I used to go camping down this way in Ben Boyd National Park

 

[Hawk Dork]

The 19 birds that have had at least half of their habitat affected by fire are:
Kangaroo Island southern emu-wren

Kangaroo Island crimson rosella



Kangaroo Island little wattlebird

Kangaroo Island white-eared honeyeater


Kangaroo Island western whipbird


Kangaroo Island shy heathwren


Kangaroo Island brown-headed honeyeater


Kangaroo Island striated thornbill

Kangaroo Island glossy black-cockatoo


Southern rufous scrub-bird


Kangaroo Island New Holland honeyeater


Kangaroo Island brown thornbill

Kangaroo Island grey currawong


Kangaroo Island red wattlebird


Central superb lyrebird


Kangaroo Island spotted scrubwren


Kangaroo Island superb fairy-wren

Rockwarbler


Northern superb lyrebird

Lyrebird may join threatened species, as scale of bird habitat lost to bushfires emerges

Almost 80 species across Australia have lost more than a third of their habitat in the catastrophic fires, preliminary data suggests

www.theguardian.com

 

[Hawk Dork]

Went to bed last night and heard this clicking screeching sound right outside the window
Got out on the balcony had a listen worked out its location and quickly shone a torch 2 owls

Listened to all the variations of sounds on the web site pretty sure its the greater sooty owl
As a result of the clearing of old-growth forests, Greater Sooty Owl populations have been fragmented and reduced.
They are now listed as ‘vulnerable‘ in New South Wales, ‘threatened’ in Victoria and ‘rare’ in Queensland.
https://wildambience.com/wildlife-sounds/greater-sooty-owl/

 

[Hawk Dork]

out there again last night
My place is their place........coooooooooooollllll

 

[Hawk Dork]

and again last night....
I probably need to get them put on a register if they are rare in Qld

 

[Hawk Dork]

Just had a Leaden Flycatcher at the water bath
thats another first

I think we are into the low 70s now for varieties

 

[Hoos]

No photos yet but we're getting regular visits from a trio of magnificent looking rosellas.

 

[JoshWoodenSpoon]

 

[Elton Johns Wig]

 

[Hoos]

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Now that is a bruncher.

 

[Elton Johns Wig]

Now that is a bruncher.

I have never seen a more indignant bird in all my days.

 

[Hawk Dork]

no farks were given

 

[Hoos]

I have never seen a more indignant bird in all my days.

That picture could not look any more perfect.

 

[Procrastinator35]

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Heavy on the Brylcream…. defo a 1960's sharpie.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Reckon I've found for our fine fathered fellow, a bird to match his stature.....Smite heavy on the mascara & the Lippy mind, but her roaring 1920's look should do the trick.

 

[Hawk Dork]

The poor things with their heads sticking out of the crevice are brunch apparently

Peacocks, porcupines and pangolins among species bred on 20,000 farms closed in wake of virus

Coronavirus closures reveal vast scale of China’s secretive wildlife farm industry

Peacocks, porcupines and pangolins among species bred on almost 20,000 farms closed in wake of virus

www.theguardian.com

 

[Hawk Dork]

 

[HahnPremium]

 

[Hoos]

Crevice.